Payment processors, if left on their own, would take any money from any person for any reason. This is more to do with a patchwork of laws that are trying to snuff out anything “adult” and will absolutely sweep up every party even remotely involved in the transaction.

They’re covering their own ass. It’s cowardice, not righteousness.

“We’re putting cameras in every room of your house, but we pinky promise to only ever look at the feed from the kitchen.”

It’s been a year, so I don’t have a specific memory of a solution, but I must have done it. That’s pretty early in the game, isn’t it?

The original expansions are included.

Experience everything Oblivion has to offer with previously released story expansions Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, and additional downloadable content included in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.

The deluxe edition includes some new stuff and cosmetics, as well as non-game extras.

• New quests for unique digital Akatosh and Mehrunes Dagon Armors, Weapons, and Horse Armor Sets

• Digital Artbook and Soundtrack App

Edit: The MS store makes it even more explicit regarding the “additional downloadable content” included in the standard edition:

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Standard Edition includes:

• Digital base game
• Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine story expansions
• Additional downloadable content: Fighter’s Stronghold expansion, Spell Tome Treasures, Vile Lair, Mehrune’s Razor, The Thieves Den, Wizard’s Tower, Orrery, and Horse Pack Armor

The copyright industry has pushed the “making available” narrative for so long, that’s sort of become the dominant talking point. IANAL, but as an internet user, I have opinions*:

a. That seems entirely backwards from what the law intends. “Making a copy” is done by the downloader, which is explicitly what the law is about.

b. The industry only went the other way because it was more convenient from a litigation perspective. It’s far easier to sue one person for seeding to 100 peers than to go after the 100 individuals who downloaded from that seeder. They got a few courts to go along with the more loose interpretation to get precedent for the next and the next suit.

* always be aware of your local copyright laws before listening to some rando online.

Give me the full game in one package at a reasonable price* and we’ll talk.

* Being Square-Enix, we won’t actually ever talk.

Actually explains a lot of decisions by game publishers the last 5-10 years if their official position is that games are meant to collect dust on a shelf rather than being played.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

A rather obtuse reference to removing the OtherOS feature well after purchase. I tried to adapt it to game terms, but admit it’s a stretch.

Out of all the boardroom discussions, raising the price was actually the most consumer-friendly suggestion from Sony. Others included:

• Deleting the original version from users’ libraries.
• Re-printing the original on disc, but including a rootkit.
• Compiling a list of original version owners and leaving their personal details in plaintext on the web until they upgrade.
• Downgrading the original to 480p, telling users the original graphics were just a bug, and selling the higher-res upgrade.

Sony bought all the “Xbox is dead” talk (true or false doesn’t matter, Sony believes it), and has started the high-end gaming console monopoly pricing.

• HL3 rumors
• HL3 announcement
• HL3 release
• HL3 is finished by multiple independent people, confirming the whole thing isn’t just a troll job by Valve <— This is when I start to believe it’s actually happening.

It was an early game pass title, priced at $60 to get people to sign up for a $10-15 subscription instead. If it had been released at ~$30 like the AA game it was, I believe it would have gotten a lot more leeway in the player reviews.

I did enjoy one playthrough. Most obsidian games beg the player to go again, but it didn’t seem worth another 15-20 hours for a slightly different ending. Replay value is what’s really missing for me.

Expectations are key. It’s a pretty good game at the right price, but anyone expecting New Vegas in Space is left disappointed.

Having never heard of this before watching the video, I feel like I know even less about the game after watching.

$30 for the early access plus a bit of micro transaction currency.

Questionable value, but a terrible headline.

The mod includes everything needed to downgrade other stores’ copies. To the end user, the idea is to make it as transparent as possible. This will work on Steam (with some work) and GOG (with less work), but not Epic(at all). Calling out one storefront unnecessarily would be “provocative bullshit” but in this case, it matters.

No, no. All the NPCs are supposed to have 7 fingers on each of their three hands. It’s in the lore.

Same reason people would buy an S when they could get more power, more storage, and a disk drive with an X: price. $450 vs $600 isn’t nothing.

Aren’t there only two companies making large-scale sports games these days? If it’s not EA, then it would basically have to be 2K.

I hear this. My life is survival mode. Games are for turning off that part of the brain for a little while.